Chapter 1741 — On the Misty River, Clouds Unfurl and Fold
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The instant Lan Yutian saw Lady Yuanmu rush out, he shot out after her. Lady Yuanmu was grievously wounded, and this was a rare opportunity for him.
Though he lacked battle experience, over the years he had watched the great war between the Heavenly Court and Wuyou Township, and he had begun by studying the moves exchanged between the gods and demons who faced each other on those battlefields, learning a great deal. He had always been a clever man, one who could infer three things from one and grasp the whole from a single part, and he improved swiftly.
In the brief instant the two clashed in the sky, Lady Yuanmu's divine ability and Lan Yutian's burst forth at once, yet they broke apart at a single touch, and Lan Yutian's heart sank.
"The one in this body is not Yuanmu! " In the very moment he traded blows with his opponent, he sensed it: Lady Yuanmu, too gravely wounded, had fallen silent of her own accord.
Now the one who controlled this body and fought him was the Empress, or rather, the Goddess of Guixu!
"The reincarnation power my brother used to trap the Goddess of Guixu was broken open by her when Yuanmu was wounded.
But this is a good thing! " Behind Lan Yutian, divine artifact after divine artifact took his form and struck, rising and falling in turn, hurtling madly at the Empress, and he thought, "With this, the divine ability I left within her body can take effect!
" The Empress suddenly gave a muffled groan. Within her, the Dao of Guixu was twisted by a strange power, and part of that Great Dao was transformed into the Dao of Taiyi!
Caught off guard, her divine ability fell at once into disorder; she was gravely wounded by the swarm of artifact-Lan Yutians, coughed blood, and was left with no choice but to charge upward into the sky, trying to evade him. Lan Yutian's gaze flickered, and he followed close behind.
In the Taqing Realm of Wuyou Township, he had taken advantage of the moment when Lady Yuanmu, sunk in reincarnation, lost herself, and planted his own divine ability within her body. His path differed from Shen Mu's.
Shen Mu had stolen the teachings of the Yin Son of Heaven, carried forward that one's unfinished Dao of Reincarnation, and used it to trap the Goddess of Guixu, forcibly creating the personality and consciousness of Lady Yuanmu to restrain her.
At that time, Shen Mu was helpless as to how to break the Goddess of Guixu's Great Dao, and could only seal her. The Goddess of Guixu had already attained the Dao; by rights, even destroying her and reducing her to Chaos would not kill her, for she would be reborn.
Shen Mu himself had cultivated the Dao of Guixu, had planted a Chaos Lotus and made its Chaos Lotus flowers bloom, and so knew that he could not be rid of the Goddess of Guixu. Moreover, even Shen Mu's reincarnation seal was only a stopgap; it could never keep the Goddess of Guixu sealed beneath Lady Yuanmu's consciousness forever. Sooner or later she would break through the cycle of reincarnation and devour Yuanmu's consciousness!
Lan Yutian, by contrast, thought only of how to break the Great Dao of Guixu; as for whether to kill the Goddess of Guixu, he had no such notion in his heart.
He set to work from the Innate Five Ultimates, borrowing the reincarnation power Shen Mu had left behind, and planted the Five Ultimates Reincarnation Seal within the Goddess of Guixu's body. His purpose was simple. The Goddess of Guixu could devour all things and turn them into the qi of Chaos; thus in battle her magic power grew ever stronger, and since she could not be killed, one day her cultivation and strength would surpass yours.